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Media Belal on how dec win over Costa got Sean a title shot...

Khamzats win over Whitaker wasn't impressive in hindsight, the preexisting injury more or less made that win a fluke imo. Believe it or not he still has to prove himself at MW. Also Sean deserves the rematch since he won in many people's eyes.
 
He's fully right. We have 2 people sitting for their shot now who both deserve it more than him.

smiles mma said:
He should have got the rematch after they had a razor close fight.
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No he shouldn't have. It was his first defense and it was close. Not a draw. Not even a robbery. Most of us call that "losing."

smiles mma said:
Shutting out Costa earned him a shot,
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It shouldn't have. Costa was lucky to even be #6, coming off a loss and 1-3 in his last 4. That doesn't earn anyone shit

smiles mma said:
what the other guys did after that shouldn't effect him.
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How bout the doing things he  should have done, like how he turned down the Rob fight and Khamzat took it and dominated.

smiles mma said:
Haters going to hate
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<3>


TerraRayzing said:
Curious but how did this Sean Vs Belal feud began?
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Most likely Sean saying something offensive
 
Poirierfan said:
Khamzats win over Whitaker wasn't impressive in hindsight, the preexisting injury more or less made that win a fluke imo. Believe it or not he still has to prove himself at MW. Also Sean deserves the rematch since he won in many people's eyes.
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This "preexisting injury" shit is so incredibly overblown. Coming into a fight with an active injury is what that usually implies, not a guy saying he has always had loose teeth because his mouth is weird, and that it's caused issues for him in other fights. The whole point of trying to excuse a loss from an injury is that it's a weakness the guy wouldn't normally have, but he's always had it, including against all the past opponents he beat. So Khamzat's win is as legit as it gets.
 
Khamzats win over Whitaker wasn't impressive in hindsight, the preexisting injury more or less made that win a fluke imo. Believe it or not he still has to prove himself at MW. Also Sean deserves the rematch since he won in many people's eyes.
Mohawk Banditó said:
This "preexisting injury" shit is so incredibly overblown. Coming into a fight with an active injury is what that usually implies, not a guy saying he has always had loose teeth because his mouth is weird, and that it's caused issues for him in other fights. The whole point of trying to excuse a loss from an injury is that it's a weakness the guy wouldn't normally have, but he's always had it, including against all the past opponents he beat. So Khamzat's win is as legit as it gets.
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Meh, I disagree, if not for a shitty repare job that fight would've continued 100%.
 
I definitely think the rematch is unearned, if the Dricus fight were scored as a whole it would've been a Strickland win but because it's scored round-by-round, Dricus won 3-2

Khamzat should be fighting for the title next week and not Strickland, then Imavov, then Strickland after winning a different fight. Costa is not good enough to warrant a TS
 
Mohawk Banditó said:
But even before the shitty repair job, that could have always been done to him and wasn't. He didn't walk into this fight newly hurt. This is a life long vulnerability.
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Pretty sure Whittaker said that dricus caused that tooth issue and that it has only been an issue since then. I could be wrong, though.
 
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When even Belal can make fun of your fighting style, you know you are fucking boring... <36>
 
fortheo said:
Pretty sure Whittaker said that dricus caused that tooth issue and that it has only been an issue since then. I could be wrong, though.
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Partially. He said his bottom teeth have always been vulnerable and just can be pushed in, and used the Dricus fight as an example of one of those times it happened during a fight.
 
For fucks sake, he is not only the guy who beat Costa

Like him or not he is the guy who:
- badly beat a defending champion in Israel
- had a very, very close fight with the actual champion


Chimaev has only one ranked win at MW.
Impressive, but still... Whittaker is the guy who lost to Israel and DDP, he wasn't on a big winning streak.
 
Poirierfan said:
Khamzats win over Whitaker wasn't impressive in hindsight, the preexisting injury more or less made that win a fluke imo. Believe it or not he still has to prove himself at MW. Also Sean deserves the rematch since he won in many people's eyes.

Meh, I disagree, if not for a shitty repare job that fight would've continued 100%.
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Preexisting injury or not, Khamzat still took down Rob, got to the back and applied a face crank.

Without that preexisting issue Rob wouldn't have tapped as fast but that doesn't necessarily he would've gotten out.
 
Poirierfan said:
Khamzats win over Whitaker wasn't impressive in hindsight, the preexisting injury more or less made that win a fluke imo. Believe it or not he still has to prove himself at MW. Also Sean deserves the rematch since he won in many people's eyes.
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Imavov win over izzy isn't impressive because in hindsight, izzy is past it and no longer one of the best MWs in the world. He has all that pre-existing damage from fights over 2 different combat sport careers. No way that imavov punch finishes him without all that pre-existing damage so it was a fluke right?

This stuff is so easy to do, I can downplay everyone's win over anyone in MMA history. Every win is not that impressive in hindsight
 
chinarice said:
Imavov win over izzy isn't impressive because in hindsight, izzy is past it and no longer one of the best MWs in the world. He has all that pre-existing damage from fights over 2 different combat sport careers. No way that imavov punch finishes him without all that pre-existing damage so it was a fluke right?

This stuff is so easy to do, I can downplay everyone's win over anyone in MMA history. Every win is not that impressive in hindsight
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I mean, neither of you are right or wrong.
Khamzat's win has the asterisk of the pre-existing injury. Kinda like when we all knew that Anderson was going into the Cannonier fight with a bum knee and then lost by knee injury.
Imamov was getting beaten pretty handily before landing a couple of shots that would have meant fuck-all before the Alex fights.
 
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